Geez, you only had to read Yarran's bio at the time to know he wasn't worth what traded for him. If an outsider can get that, what the **** were they doing in at Clubland?
The pressure was to land a big fish if i remember correctly.and yarran was our big fish lol.
Why were we not chasing Mids or KPP'S.
LAST YR said at the time we should be keeping all our picks and trading into the first round if possible.
Wanted Brodie Grundie 18months ago and said if he was there at our pick we should snaffle him. Exactly what was needed and what the club itself has said we need to go after for yrs.
parfitt with the vickery pick we traded for Caddy and it still left 29 which i would not have used on Bolton but gone tall on someone like macreadie or cox who were both there.
I thought pick 29 could have gone on a needs basis especially if we had earlier picks.What i did not get was we had taken so many sml fwds in recent yrs and had so many smalls on the list yet we went to that well again.
Said as much at the time was totally against the direction we took we needed to stay in the nd and target older blokes like Barlow, Petrie who were dirt cheap to address glaring holes in the short term while juniors developed.
A couple of sliding door moments and there were variables to this other older players we could have targeted.
Brodie 189cm mid , Parfitt tough 180cm inside mid. Cox/Macreadie kpps, Nankervis ruck, Graham inside mid , Garthwaite tall defender ,
f/a Barlow 190cm mid , Petrie kpp/ruck .
Rookie glass-McCasker kpp.
This is not hindsight this is the sort of thing i pushed for at the time.